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Posted in Grid Computing on Jan 15th, 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Dec 8th, 2009
It seems that Apple has pulled the project to implement the ZFS file system over the mac, apparently due to licensing issues (no surprise there, now that Sun is in the hands of Oracle).
Mac’s OX extended format is synonymous with HFS+. HFS+ used B-Trees to store volume metadata and has being around since Mac OS 8.1 so [...]
Posted in Grid Computing on Oct 11th, 2009
For those who use Sun Grid Engine or are interested in knowing more about it there is a nice post on the blog “memories of a product manager” outlining new features coming the December 2009 release.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips on Apr 21st, 2009
In a bolt from the blue, Oracle have put in a bid to purchase Sun Microsystems. The sparring over they years between the two companies has resulted in a TKO for Larry Ellison and Oracle. Where this leaves Sun’s Cloud Strategy and initiatives such as Java etc remains to be seen.
FreedomOSS published a list [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 16th, 2009
OVF is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that enables virtual machines or appliances to be imported and exported. Virtual appliances are one or more virtual machines that are pre-installed and configured so they can be shared, published and distributed. VirtualBox 2.2 software enables users to build virtual machines or appliances and effortlessly export [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips on Feb 11th, 2009
Through January ‘09 GigaSpaces conducted a joint project with Sun and Intel. This was to investigate A Scale-Up Benchmark on the Sun Fire X4450 multi core servers which use Intel Xeon 7460 processors (4 CPUs with six cores each) and the GigaSpaces XAP middleware. Focus was on on application scalability and latency. The testing concentrated on mission [...]
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